Geopolitics
Every Geopolitics story Crosswise has covered, in one place.
Europe Is Facing a Second China Shock. America Isn’t the Main Cause.
Chinese industrial competition is intensifying across Europe, inside China and in third markets. US tariffs are reshaping those flows and may produce larger indirect effects over time.
32 min read
Indonesia Isn’t Choosing China. It Is Diversifying Its Dependencies.
Indonesia is deepening defence-industrial cooperation with Beijing while China already dominates important parts of its trade and industrial economy.
27 min read
China’s Arctic Route Is Real. A New Suez Is Not.
China has moved Arctic container shipping beyond the demonstration stage, launching a scheduled seasonal service to Northern Europe. The route is dramatically faster for some cargoes and strategically interesting.
27 min read
The $40 Trillion Warning Is Real. The Bond-Market Panic Isn’t — Yet.
The United States has crossed another enormous debt milestone just as long-term borrowing costs have surged to levels not seen since before the financial crisis.
14 min read
The Strait That Is Neither Open Nor Closed
Ships are still moving through Hormuz. Normal commerce isn't. The deeper dispute is no longer simply whether the Strait is open, but what rules govern passage, who gets to enforce them—and whether commercial shipping can operate between competing systems of coercion.
22 min read